16 Dec
2007
16 Dec
'07
10:55 a.m.
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 13:04 +0100, Rod Smallwood wrote:
The design of the VT100 was done by one engineer who I
met but I cannot
recall his name.
I believe you may be referring to Mike Leis.
I snapped a photo of him at a DEC reunion at The Mill:
http://gunkies.org/photos/mill/big/img_3513.jpg
Amongst other things, he told me that DEC considered the VT100 to be a
failure, since it never met the profit margin outlined in the project
proposal.
The main reason they created the VT100 was because the VT52 was quite
hard to mass produce automatically.
-Tore
